Elections category: 1210 books
All the Governor's Men
A Mountain Brook Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
It’s the summer of George Wallace’s last run for governor of Alabama in 1982, and the state is at a crossroads. In Katherine Clark’s All the Governor’s Men, a political comedy of manners that reimagines Wallace’s last campaign, voters face a clear choice between the infamous segregationist,...
11 Days
2016 Election Postmortem
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
11 Days explores why Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 Presidential election to a political neophyte.
Did she run a bad campaign or was she simply a bad candidate?
What happened in the Rust-Belt--where was Labor's get out the vote effort?
What role did the liberal media play...
Americans, Congress, and Democratic Responsiveness
Public Evaluations of Congress and Electoral Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
"Jones and McDermott restore meaning to democratic responsibility by finding that public evaluations affect Congress. In contrast to the popular depiction of the representatives controlling the represented
rampant in the political science literature, Jones and McDermott show that the people are...
The World According to Gore
The Incredible Vision of the Man Who Should Be President
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
From election "loser," to bearded recluse, to dynamic Oscar, Emmy, and Nobel Prize winner: Al Gore has come a long way since 2000, and he has chronicled his up-and-down post-Washington journey in books, editorials, speeches, and interviews. In The World According to Gore, Bill Katovsky collects the...
by Craig L. Foster,
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Might, Right, and Mitt.
In the contested terrain of American politics, nowhere is the conflict more intense, even brutal, than in the territory of public life also claimed by religion. Mitt Romney’s 2007–08 presidential campaign is a textbook example.
Religious historian (and ardent Republican)...
Character Makes a Difference
Where I'm From, Where I've Been, and What I Believe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
How powerful is integrity? Just ask minister-turned-statesman, Mike Huckabee. As lieutenant governor of Arkansas in 1996, he was publicly cast between the ultimate rock and hard place when his boss, governor Jim Guy Tucker, refused to resign despite his felony convictions in the Whitewater scandal. ...
Run to Win!
How You Can Run a Successful Campaign for Local or State Public Office
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Earl Baker leads you sequentially through the logical, practical way to run a winning campaign for local or state office.
The Virgin Vote
How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. In the second half of the nineteenth century--as voter turnout reached unprecedented peaks--young people led the way, hollering, fighting, and flirting at massive midnight rallies. Parents trained their...
Responsible Parties
Saving Democracy from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics
In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries...
Reagan's Comeback
Four Weeks in Texas That Changed American Politics Forever
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Never before has the story been told of the dramatic turning point when Ronald Reagan found his voice as a presidential contender and overcame the Republican establishment. Reagan's Comeback is the story of how one state, one man, and one month changed national politics forever. Chronicling how Reagan’s...
The Apartisan American
Dealignment and the Transformation of Electoral Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
This provocative book sheds new light on the dealignment trend with the emergence of an independent voter Dalton is calling the Apartisan American. Utilizing 60 years of electoral surveys, Dalton's friendly and concise narrative shows students just who these apartisans are and how they're introducing...
De héroes y traidores
El dilema de Cataluña o los diez errores del procés
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 6, 2018
«Esta es una historia de enredos políticos y regate corto, de decisiones a veces nobles, a veces tristes, del enfrentamiento entre idealistas y pragmáticos, maximalistas y posibilistas, convertidos en héroes y traidores en función del momento y de quién los juzga. Héroes desgraciados reunidos...
by Margarita López Maya
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Este libro inteligente lo guiará por un recorrido transparente y accesible de la historia venezolana reciente. Cuando la autora nos dice que «el Caracazo fue una sacudida en mi carrera profesional», nos suma a su impecable análisis académico de historiadora el impacto emocional que supuso ese...
Dinero bajo la mesa
Financiamiento y gasto ilegal de las campañas políticas en México
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 29, 2019
El modus operandi de una práctica corrupta que está socavando los cimientos de legalidad y equidad de las elecciones en México.
El gran problema de la democracia electoral mexicana se llama dinero. Ya lo había sido en el siglo XX: los partidos de oposición no tenían los suficientes recursos...